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Newspaper
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Location
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America
Date
May 19, 1945
Page
3
Unofficial Monday estimates show cattle 16,000 hogs 10,000 sheep 12,000 with Saturday sales nominally steady due to light offerings. hog top quoted at $14.75. receipts included 500 hogs, 50 cattle, 500 sheep. other figures list calves, feeders, stockers, cows, and lambs with varied prices across categories.
Hogs and sheep calmed totals at Sioux City market with steady to lower bids across classes. Slaughter steers mostly steady from $12.75 to $16.25, cows $7.25 to $14.75, stockers $11.50 to $15.00, lambs around $13.00 to $14.75, ewes up to about $9.25, receipts around 300 total head across hogs sheep and cattle.
Salable receipts 300 hogs and 100 cattle with mixed changes from Friday. Barrows and gilts show $14.45 to $14.75 bids for light weight steers and fat cows easing 25 cents, vealers and bulls around $13.75 to $15.75. Sheep receipts 225 with slaughter lambs up 25 cents, wool and pelts trading in range $7.50 to $15.60, California spring lambs $15.25, ewes and shearlings priced accordingly.
Combined hog receipts at 19 concentration yards and 11 packing plants in interior Iowa and southern Minnesota for the 24 hours ending Saturday 8 a.m. total 18 000, down from 24 600 a week ago and 32% a year earlier. Prices listed for various weight ranges show declines with hogs 160-186 lbs at 13. Sear 14.45 and larger categories around 14.45 to 13.70.
An Iowa market brief lists Waterloo, Ottumwa and Des Moines prices for coal and livestock. Coals priced around 13.90 to 14.40 per hundredweight with varied line values. fat sows range from 12.76 to 15.65 per hundredweight.
Prices on the Cedar Rapids hog and cattle market held at ceiling levels. Top hog prices reached 1445 for prime butchers and 313.70 for packers. Cattle quotes cover steers and heifers across multiple grades with varied prices, plus sheep and grain values and wholesale fruit and produce notes.
OPA announced fuel oil rations would be available this summer for all cooking stoves and hot water heaters. The order lifted a May 1 to Sept. 1 restriction that denied oil if adequate stand by equipment was available.
The New York market extended gains with fractional advances across many sectors as top levels receded. Trading volume reached about 700000 shares while leaders such as the Dow Jones Industrial and various utilities nudged higher amid mixed quotes and firming railroad and department store listings.
May rye rose to 17.54 per bushel in Chicago trading, a fresh 20 year high while most grain futures gained or held firm. Wheat ended lower though, with other tickers showing mixed to firm moves as oats barley and rye posted gains.
Chicago market notes show no sales for corn and wheat with oats trading No 1 mixed at 69 seconds. Bark prices list Timothy at 6.00 to 6.25, red clover 31.50, sweet clover 10, and alfalfa around 26.50 with nominal feed at 82 to 1.02.
Fragmentary shopping ledger style item lists dairy eggs and produce prices including cheddars and pounds. Mentions Plymouth Wisconsin and local market references with unclear quantities and vendors.
Marion junior high service committee sold 7474.75 in war stamps and bonds during 1944 45. Miss Dorothy Haffa announced at closing assembly. Eighth grade vocal group sang three selections. Helen Hammond played accordion. Eighth grade speech class presented The Toy Shop. Perfect attendance awards were given to 27 students. Honor roll recipients named for seventh and eighth grades.
Marion high school juniors hosted the annual junior senior prom in the gymnasium with a circus theme. Tom Dochterman sang a vocal solo and the orchestra provided dance music while Willard Haak Jr chaired the prom committee and sponsors included Miss Anne Popchuck and Mrs. Sheila Gilley.
Orval Everett Howland and Mildred Doris Brockwell of Cedar Rapids were married Saturday morning by Justice of the Peace C. E. Pearson. Attendants were Ellsworth Norton and Martha Howland. Howland works as a welder.
Funeral services for C. H. Comport were conducted Friday at Yocom chapel by Rev. Veron H. Carter with burial in Cecar Memorial park. Pallbearers included John D. Houts David Cott Lyndon Hall and Miles Hess. Attending were Mrs. P. P. Churchill of St. Paul and her son Billy Roy H. Comport from Minneapolis and Thomas P. Comport of Superior Wisconsin.
The Baptist church led by Rev. Charles Moore offers Bible school at 9 45 a m morning worship at 10 45 a m Young peoples meeting at 7 p m evening worship at 8 p m and midweek prayer and Bible study Wednesday at 8 p m St Josephs Catholic with Rev T J McElliott celebrates mass at 8 and 10 a m Bible school 9 45 a m morning worship at 10 45 a m and a union candlelight service at Methodist church 8 p m The Free Methodist led by Rev C B Patrick has Sunday school 9 45 a m preaching at 11 a m and 7 45 p m Y P M S 7 15 p m and midweek prayer Wednesday 7 30 p m Union services listed with Rev James Lower at the Free Methodist and Rev James P Gable at the Methodist church.
Morning worship at 10 55 a.m. features a sermon When The Air Is Astir and special choir music under Miss Rose Wilcox with Geraldine Caldwell solo. A memorial for Sgt. Arthur L. Takahashi killed in action April 21 will be held. The bac calaureate sermon by Rev C V R De Jong at 8 p.m. and various church activities follow including Sunday school and council meetings.
Danish radio and Scandinavian dispatches report Gov. P C Stemann and three Bornholm parliament members reached Copenhagen as Russia signals readiness to restore diplomatic ties. Restrictions on the island ease. Moscow denies occupying the island though timing of stay uncertain.
City briefs note Miss Betty Gordon of 715 Sixth Street SE has had an appendectomy at Mercy hospital. The item also lists a Monday to Wednesday bungalow cooking school and church activities at United Brethren church in Shueyville with services on Sunday at 9 30, church school at 10 30 and choir practice at 7 30. Vacation Bible school runs May 21 to June 1 from 9 to 11 30 a.m.
A. W. Mueller, Clayton county deputy sheriff for eight years, will become sheriff on July 1 succeeding E. W. Carlsen who joins the state board of control appointed by Gov. Blue.
The Boston Braves optioned infielder Norman Wallen to the Indianapolis Indians of the American Association. Wallen has been sidelined by injuries and influenza and joined the Braves last month.
Notice records several 1945 appointments in Linn County Iowa. Myrtle Benton is named administratrix of John William Benton estate and Josselyn are executors of May R. Josselyn estate. Theresa Norton Anna Baker and others are listed as administratrix or administratrix candidates. Empty or damaged lines include In Memoriam for Gilbert A. Perkins.
A cluttered page shows various lost items and services including lost keys in a leather case, a wristwatch, and a bracelet. It lists jewelers Vincent’s and Schaepfer’s, a beauty shop, a printing shop, and several business ads. Job seekers respond to help wanted ads for mechanics and retail positions.
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